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Gift Imprisoned : The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-100465044212
ISBN-139780465044214
eBay Product ID (ePID)52803
Product Key Features
Book TitleGift Imprisoned : the Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicGeneral, Poetry
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorIan Hamilton
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-687309
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal821/.8 B
SynopsisEnglish poet Matthew Arnold had two lives. In his youth, he was an impassioned lyric poet. In his later years, he was Victorian England's best-known social prophet, educational reformer, and literary critic. Arnold's poetic life that gave us " Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Empedocles on Etna" --was effectively over by the age of forty, when he began to devote all his energies to "purposeful" prose composition. As Auden said, he "thrust his gift in prison till it died." From the very start, though, Arnold had viewed his poetry-writing self as irresponsible, delinquent. As the eldest son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, the great shaper of Victorian morality, his destiny--he knew--was inescapable. He had been born to "make a difference" to the age in which he lived.For about twenty years, however, Matthew Arnold made efforts to resist his destiny as a social moralist, and this book is the story of that losing battle. As a biographical narrative, A Gift Imprisoned confronts a number of intriguing puzzles. Chief among these, of course, is the much-pondered Marguerite. Who was she: a dream-girl, an invention born of too much exposure to the novels of George Sand, or a real person met in Switzerland in 1848? Then there is Dr. Arnold himself: a devitalizing ogre or an inspiration? And, overarchingly, there is the matter of Arnold's attitude to his own gifts as a poet: Why did he so early on abandon the poetic life and settle for three decades of drudgery as an inspector of elementary schools? Was it really a fierce love of duty that took him down this path--or was it, rather, that he all along had insufficient faith in his own talent? And this leads to the question that matters most of all: How much faith do we and should we have in his talent?In this compelling study, Ian Hamilton brings his own formidable gifts and his lifelong passion for his subject to bear on one of the most mysterious literary figures of the last century--and a figure who still fascinates today. The result is a biography of rare originality and significance., Critically acclaimed biographer Ian Hamilton explores the early life of Matthew Arnold. A book of rare originality and significance that explores the origins of Arnold's creativity and the reasons for it's strangulation.
LC Classification NumberPR4023.H27 1999
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